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[[File:Seal of the United States Department of Energy.svg|thumb|The official seal of the U.S. Department of Energy.]] | [[File:Seal of the United States Department of Energy.svg|thumb|The official seal of the U.S. Department of Energy.]] | ||
The system of national laboratories started with the massive scientific endeavors of [[World War II]], in which several new technologies, especially the [[atomic bomb]], proved decisive for the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] victory. Though the United States government had begun seriously investing in scientific research for national security in | The system of national laboratories started with the massive scientific endeavors of [[World War II]], in which several new technologies, especially the [[atomic bomb]], proved decisive for the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] victory. Though the United States government had begun seriously investing in scientific research for national security in World War I, it was only in this wartime period that significant resources were committed to scientific problems, under the auspices first of the [[National Defense Research Committee]], and later the [[Office of Scientific Research and Development]], organized and administered by [[Vannevar Bush]]. | ||
During the Second World War, centralized sites such as the [[Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Radiation Laboratory]] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] and [[Ernest O. Lawrence]]'s [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory|laboratory]] at [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]] and the [[Metallurgical Laboratory]] at the University of Chicago allowed for a large number of expert scientists to collaborate towards defined goals as never before, and with government resources of unprecedented scale at their disposal. | During the Second World War, centralized sites such as the [[Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Radiation Laboratory]] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] and [[Ernest O. Lawrence]]'s [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory|laboratory]] at [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]] and the [[Metallurgical Laboratory]] at the University of Chicago allowed for a large number of expert scientists to collaborate towards defined goals as never before, and with government resources of unprecedented scale at their disposal. | ||